Today is Wednesday, the 10th of January of 2024,
January 10 is the 10th day of the year
356 days remain until the end of the year
68 days until spring begins
The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:25:15 am
and sunset will be at 5:10:21 pm.
We will have 9 hours and 45 minutes of daylight
The solar transit will be at 12:17:48 pm.
Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 54°F.
The first low tide will be at 2:59 am at 3.37 feet
The first high tide of the day will be at 8:53 am at 6.9 feet (pretty high!)
The next low tide at 4:14 pm at -1.4 feet
and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 11:26 am at 4.95 feet
Moon: 1.3%
It will be a zero percent visible New Moon tomorrow Thursday the 11th of January of 2024 at 3:57 am
Today is….
National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
National Oysters Rockefeller Day
Today is also…
Margaret Thatcher Day on the Falkland Islands
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share this special day with….
1883 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1966)
1883 – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1945)
1887 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher (d. 1962)
1904 – Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (d. 1987)
1908 – Paul Henreid, Italian-American actor and director (d. 1992)
1917 – Jerry Wexler, American journalist and producer (d. 2008)
1925 – Billie Sol Estes, American financier and businessman (d. 2013)
1927 – Johnnie Ray, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1990)
1928 – Philip Levine, American poet and academic (d. 2015)
1928 – Peter Mathias, English historian and academic (d. 2016)
1930 – Roy E. Disney, American businessman (d. 2009)
1934 – Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, 1st President of Ukraine (d. 2022)
1935 – Ronnie Hawkins, American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2022).
1936 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and author (d. 2002)
1938 – Donald Knuth, American computer scientist and mathematician
1938 – Willie McCovey, American baseball player (d. 2018)
1939 – David Horowitz, American writer and activist
1939 – Scott McKenzie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
1939 – Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
1943 – Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
1945 – Rod Stewart, British singer-songwriter
1948 – Donald Fagen, American singer-songwriter and musician
1949 – George Foreman, American boxer, actor, and businessman
1949 – Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress and activist (d. 2002)
1953 – Pat Benatar, American singer-songwriter
1956 – Shawn Colvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian-American violinist, author, and educator
…and on this day in history….
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1901 – Automobile Club of America installs signs on major highways.
1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1980 – The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the letter Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, which is later misused to downplay the general risk of addiction to opioids.
1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
